Lot 121
  • 121

JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE | Indian Summer

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean-Paul Riopelle
  • Indian Summer
  • signed and dated 57
  • oil on canvas
  • 65 x 81 cm; 25 9/16 x 31 15/16 in.
  • Executed in 1957.

Provenance

Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Paris
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Private Collection, Switzerland
Acquired from the above in 1959 and thence by descent to the present owner

Literature

Yseult and Tanguy Riopelle, Jean-Paul Riopelle Catalogue Raisonné Tome 2, 1954-1959, Montréal, 2004, p. 264, no.078H, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Very close inspection reveals a few picks broken in places. Further very close inspection reveals very thin networks of cracks to the red paint on the left side and near the lower right quadrant of the composition. Extremely close inspection and only visible under racking light reveals hairline networks of cracks to the white paint towards the center of the right edge and to the lower left quadrant. Inspection under UV light reveals a spot of in-painting towards the center of the right edge.
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Catalogue Note

Le motif est quelque chose de secondaire. Ce que je veux reproduire c'est ce qu'il y a entre le motif et moi.

The subject is secondary. It is my intention to depict what is between the subject matter and myself.
Jean-Paul Riopelle